A Plea from America's Scholars

It Is Time For Congress To Take Action And Reform Our Nation’s Immigration Laws: A Plea From America’s Scholars

May 1, 2013

The history of America is a history of immigration. Starting with our country’s founding by idealistic newcomers, the waves of immigrants who settled in the United States have continuously added to our culture and national identity. However, America’s immigration system has become out of step with the social and economic needs of our nation and, therefore, we believe policies must change. As university professors from across the United States, we believe that reforming our immigration laws is both the right thing to do and is in our nation’s best interests. As the community responsible for educating the next generation of Americans, we see the harm that a broken immigration system has had on our students and their families.

For immigrant students who have studied and grown up in the U.S., we need to ensure that they have the opportunities to continue their education and settle into their careers in the U.S. Similarly, immigrants with credentials and skills already living in the U.S. should have the opportunity to practice their professions here.

The positive effects that immigrant students have on our education system are manifold. Immigrant students contribute to the diversity of our classrooms, which in turn has a positive impact on all students. Diversity has been shown to be positively associated with students’ cognitive development, satisfaction with their educational experience, and leadership skills.

We are educating these students in the U.S., but the broken immigration system makes it extremely difficult for students to stay and build a life in this country and for U.S. employers to hire them. Immigration reform needs to address these shortcomings. Furthermore, as immigrants are highly likely to start businesses and contribute to innovation at a time when the U.S. economy needs it most, we must ensure that the opportunities for business start-ups and innovative collaboration within the United States are not lost.

More than the contributions that immigrants make through their research and entrepreneurship, they are members of our communities. Congress' failure to pass immigration reform is contributing to the creation of a permanent underclass of marginalized individuals surviving in the shadows of society and facing overwhelming economic and social burdens. It is especially troubling that millions of undocumented children who would have benefited from the DREAM Act – American in spirit but not in law – are now enrolled in U.S. schools, but will not be able to lawfully gain employment at the end of their education.

And increasingly, immigrants are living in mixed-status families, or households where some family members are undocumented, some are citizens, while others immigrated legally. And a decade of enforcement-only immigration policies has separated families and communities through deportation. Our immigrant students are likely to have family members who are undocumented or have been deported, and the deportations of family and community members have lasting consequences for them. Legal, secure families and communities will increase the persistence, graduation rates, and success of students from immigrant and post-immigrant backgrounds. There will be an impressive payoff to this investment in the future of our nation.

With support from all sides, the signs are clear that now is the time for Congress to act on immigration reform. The U.S. is operating with a broken immigration system that is limiting the potential of thousands of immigrant students and blocking millions more immigrants from being able to achieve citizenship in a country they already call home. The current system is damaging to individuals, families, communities, and the economy. We think America is better than this. It is time for Congress to fix this upside-down moral universe and pass comprehensive immigration reform that includes a clear, earned path to citizenship. It is time for Congress to take action and reform our nation’s immigration laws to match our 21st century world.

Patricia A. McManus, Indiana University

Richard Alba, The City University of New York

Carola Suarez-Orozco, University of California, Los Angeles

Cynthia Garcia Coll, Brown University

Socorro Hernandez-Hinek, Fayetteville State University

Michael A. Olivas, University of Houston

Helen B. Marrow, Tufts University

John S.W. Park, University of California, Santa Barbara

Donald S. Dobkin, Central Michigan University

Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Harvard University

David T. Takeuchi, University of Washington

Van C. Tran, Columbia University

Linda Bosniak, Rutgers Law School

Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University

Joanna Dreby, University at Albany

Grace Kao, University of Pennsylvania

Clara C. Mojica Diaz, Tennessee State University

Rodolfo Rosales, University of Texas at San Antonio

Clariza Barbee, The Art Institute of Nashville

De Ann Pendry, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

O. Shelley Kemp, Victory University

Rachel Carmack, Volunteer State Community College

Eric Melcher, Volunteer State Community College

Sherryl A. Byrd, Austin Peay State University

Sandeep Nadiminti, Wichita State University

Daniel Naujoks, Institute of International Economics

Filiberto Barajas-López, University of Washington-Seattle

Jennifer Hinton, Naropa University

H. Nolo Martinez, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Roberto G. Gonzales, University of Chicago

Milena U. Janiec-Grygo, University of South Florida

Kirsten F. Nigro, University of Texas at El Paso

Rachel E. Rosenbloom, Northeastern University

Cinzia Solari, University of Massachusetts Boston

Maria Cristina Morales, University of Texas at El Paso

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María Socorro Tabuenca, The University of Texas at El Paso

Stephanie J. Silverman, York University

LaToya Tavernier, The City University of New York

Jason Eyster, Thomas M. Cooley Law School

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Elizabeth Broderick, Boston College

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Pei-te Lein, University of California Santa Barbara

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Andrew M. Manis, Middle Georgia State College

Kate Carabalona, Hunter College

Alexander Caviedes, State University of New York at Fredonia

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Roger Waldinger, University of California, Los Angeles

Jeannett Manzanero, Palm Beach State College

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Kathleen Kim, Loyola Law School

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Venus Bermudez, Brooklyn Law School

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Jessica Smith Bobadilla, San Joaquin College of Law

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Jessica Feinberg, Mercer University

Guillermo Yrizar-Barbosa, City University of New York

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Jerry D. Campbell, Claremont Lincoln University

Jennifer Rotman, Lewis & Clark Law School

Kenneth Barger, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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John Willshire Carrera, Harvard University

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Sarah Faville, University of Colorado

David T. Ritchie, Mercer University

Ronald W. Luna, University of Maryland at College Park

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Scott Titshaw, Mercer University

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Avi Poster, University of Illinois

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Chris Rodgers, Creighton University

Luis Fernando Restrepo, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Shavit Yarden, The City University of New York

Matthew I. Hirsch, Widener University School of Law

Andrés Consoli, San Francisco State University

Robert C. Milla, Chicago-Kent College of Law

Alene Bryson, University of Arkansas

Kate Aschenbrenner, Barry University

Seamus Finn, Oblate School of Theology

G. David Gearhart, University of Arkansas

Lisa Melendez, Suffolk Community College

Marjorie S. Zatz, Arizona State University

GianCarlo Soto, Grand Rapids Community College

Fred Bemak, George Mason University

Emily Crawford, University of Missouri-Columbia

Ilana Etkin Greenstein, Northeastern University

Moneque Walker-Pickett, Saint Leo University

Bill Schwab, University of Arkansas

Roxanne Lynn Doty, Arizona State University

Marta Maria Maldonado, Iowa State University

Lauris Wren, Hofstra Law School

Allert Brown-Gort, University of Notre Dame

Ron Gleason, Faulconer Scholarship Program

Kenneth A. Mayeaux, Louisiana State University

Walter H. Ruehle, Cornell Law School

Dedriah Collin, Ephesus Baptist Bible College

Troy James Perdue, East Tennessee State University

Ellen Weber, University of Denver

Allan Wernick, Baruch College

Dowell Myers, University of Southern California

Hany S. Brollesy, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Katie Christophersen, University of St. Thomas

Harriett Romo, The University of Texas San Antonio

Michael Indergaard, St. John's University

Yung-Wei Lin, University of Maine

Rebecca Hamlin, Grinnell College

Deborah M. Weissman, University of North Carolina

Tanya L. Domi, Columbia University

William P. Kelly, City University New York

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Mari Castaneda, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Kimberly A. Hart, Northern Illinois University

Sarah Blalock, University of North Texas

Jose E. Hernandez, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Gloria Aquino Sosa, Saint Mary's College

Judith A Ryder, St John's University

David Hernandez, Mount Holyoke College

Robert P. Marlin, Harvard University

Sherry Dorris, Clemson University

Kasie C. Reyes, Old Dominion University

Linda Carroll, Santa Rosa Junior College

Cristina Brinkerhoff, University of Massachusetts Boston

Thomas Chen, Tufts University

Lilian Chavez, Arizona State University

Rajiv Ramnath, The Ohio State University

Paul Gorski, George Mason University

Philip Kretsedemas, University of Massachusetts-Boston

Yue Zhuo, St. John's University

Gabriel Lomas, Western Connecticut State University

Sancha Medwinter, Duke University

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Necip Berme, The Ohio State University

Roberta Villalon, St. John's University

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John Mollenkopf, City University of New York

Joe Potts, Purdue University

Kimberlee Ratliff, American Public University System

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Jose Villalba, Wake Forest University

David Forbes, Brooklyn College

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Amy Lutz, Syracuse University

Clare Merlin, College of William & Mary

Cassandra A. Storlie, Kent State University

Ming Hsu Chen, University of Colorado

Anthony Vital, Transylvania University

Katy Swalwell, George Mason University

Amy Carroll, George Mason University

Susannah Coaston, Northern Kentucky University

Esther V. John, Seattle Central Community College

Samantha Spinney, George Mason University

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Rachael Goodman, George Mason University

Diane Ward, University of California, Los Angeles

Libby M. Grammer, University of Virginia

Ramon R. Collazo, North Carolina State University

Jill E. Family, Widener University

Laura M. Gonzalez, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College

Tiffany Joseph, Harvard University

Antonio Polo, DePaul University

James Frank Smith, University of California, Davis

Daniel Kanstroom, Boston College

Margaret Abraham, Hofstra University

David Jenkins, Emory University

Charles Nieman, University of Pittsburgh

Joe Costanzo, George Mason University

Anne M. Wiley, Greenfield Community College

Patricia F. First, Clemson University

Richard Milligan, University of Georgia

Karen Musalo, University of California, Hastings

Michael Gould-Wartofsky, New York University

Miriam Nunez, University of California, Los Angeles

Hernan Ramirez, Florida State University

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California

Paul McDaniel, Immigration Policy Center

Jennifer Sloan, City University of New York

Catherine Fisk, University of California, Irvine

Renee Domeier, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University

David Bensman, Rutgers University

Dan Selter, Transylvania University

Norma Stoltz Chinchilla, California State University Long Beach

David C. Koelsch, University of Detroit Mercy

Ana Hontanilla, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Tatyana Kleyn, The City College of New York

Karina Sternin, North Seattle Community College

Lisa Gring-Pemble, George Mason University

Gloria Vaquera, John Carroll University

Maria DeGuzman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jacqueline Leavitt, University of California, Los Angeles

Milena Hurtado, Fayetteville State University

John Martinez, Seattle Central Community College

Martha Gehringer, Transylvania University

Claudia Cabello, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Ariana Valle, University of California, Los Angeles

Fernando Lozano, Pomona College

Miriam Feldblum, Pomona College

David Gerber, University at Buffalo

Miliann Kang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Patrick Van Inwegen, Whitworth University

Louisa Holmes, University of Southern California

Heather Mauney, Florida State University

Eva Serrano, Aurora University

Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University

Eric Jones, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Juan Quevedo, California State University, Northridge

Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield, University of Maryland, College Park

James Paxton, Moravian College

Nancy Plankey-Videla, Texas A&M University

Brent White, University of Arizona

Heikki Lempa, Moravian College

Dennis Conway, Indiana University

Dina C. Castro, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Cristina Ioana Dragomir, State University of New York

Leonie J. Brooks, Towson University

F. Daniel Siciliano, Stanford University

Lynn Stephen, University of Oregon

Susan Roll, California State University, Chico

Michael Malahy Morris, University of New Mexico

Cathy Lisa Schneider, American University

James M. Bergquist, Villanova University

Michelle Wenk, University of Southern California

Carol Schmid, Guilford Technical Community College

Sharlene Simon, North Carolina State University

Sandra Aguilar, Moravian College

Anita Waters, Denison University

Bascom Guffin, University of California, Davis

Ed Williams, University of Arizona

Rachel Settlage, Wayne State University

Susan Eaton, Harvard University

Gary Deaton, Transylvania University

Jack Furlong, Transylvania University

Kathryn A. Lee, Whitworth University

Alan Hyde, Rutgers University

Stephen Yale-Loehr, Cornell University

Valerie Francisco, University of Portland

Syed H. Imam, Hamdard University

Brian L. Rich, Transylvania University

Carolina Sternberg, DePaul University

Jeanette E. Sherbondy, Washington College

David Brundage, University of California, Santa Cruz

Robin Catmur, University of Georgia

Laura Murray-Tjan, Boston College

Daniela Pila, University at Albany

Patricia Gándara, University of California, Los Angeles

Barbara Hines, University of Texas

Valerie Stokes, Northwestern College

Roger Velasquez, Duke University

Bruce Cohen, Worcester State University

Kent Wong, University of California, Los Angeles

Enid Trucios-Haynes, University of Louisville

Robin Burnette, Ohio University

Francesca Degiuli, College of Staten Island

Christina Borysthen-Tkacz, Boston University

Tom Ancona, University of Chicago

Elizabeth Fussell, Washington State University

Julie Stewart, University of Utah

Norma Fuentes-Mayorga, Princeton University

Shana Alex Lavarreda, University of California, Los Angeles

Marc Schenker, University of California at Davis

Pamela K. Sertzen, Syracuse University

Joanna Dreby, University at Albany

Arlene Dallalfar, Lesley University

Leisy Abrego, University of California, Los Angeles

Ruben A. Lopez, Fullerton College

Maureen A. Sweeney, University of Maryland

Hilton Cordoba, Florida Atlantic University

Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside

Tanya Nieri, University of California, Riverside

Elizabeth G. Kennedy, University of California, Santa Barbara and San Diego State University

Nik Heynen, University of Georgia

Marion Coddou, Stanford University

Peter Kivisto, Augustana College

Theo J. Majka, University of Dayton

Nancy Foner, City University of New York

Mehdi Bozorgmehr, City University of New York

Cornelia Butler Flora, Iowa State University

Maryann Bylander, University of London

Julia Gelatt, Princeton University

Paul Wallace, University of Missouri-Columbia

Mike Amezcua, Northwestern University

Carina Bandhauer, Western Connecticut State University

Laura Enriquez, University of California, Los Angeles

Pat Rubio Goldsmith, Texas A&M University

Elizabeth Aranda, University of South Florida

Hugo Ceron-Anaya, Lehigh University

Emilio A. Parrado, The University of Pennsylvania

Stephanie A. Bohon, University of Tennessee

Jennifer Wyse, Virginia Tech

Michael A. Rodriguez, University of California, Los Angeles

Walter Ewing, Immigration Policy Center

Steven P. Wallace, University of California, Los Angeles

Katie Dingeman-Cerda, University of California, Irvine

Elvia Ramirez, California State University, Sacramento

Marc R. Settembrino, University of Central Florida

Stephen Ruszczyk, City University of New York

Hector Carrillo, Northwestern University

Lisa M. Martinez, University of Denver

Sonia P. Bettez, University of New Mexico

Miren Uriarte, University of Massachusetts Boston

Saskia Sassen, Columbia University

Kimberly Mahaffy, Millersville University

Silvia Pedraza, University of Michigan

Mark Dawson, Texas A&M University

Tamar Diana Wilson, University of Missouri, St. Louis

David Cook-Martín, Grinnell College

José A. Muñoz, California State University San Bernardino

Daniel Olmos, California State University Channel Islands

Veronica Montes, University of California, Santa Barbara

William J. Haller, Clemson University

Shawna Avila, Florida International University

Ariela Schachter, Stanford University

Barbara D. Riess, Allegheny College

Catherine Ceniza Choy, University of California Berkeley

Shannan Mattiace, Allegheny College

Carmen Martinez-Calderon, University of California Berkeley

Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher, University of Tennessee

Altha J. Cravey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Christine Trost, University of California at Berkeley

Robin Datel, California State University Sacramento

Ron Hayduk, Queens College

Roberto Cortez Gonzalez, University of Texas at El Paso

Cybelle Fox, University of California Berkeley

Doris Marie Provine, Arizona State University

Willow Mata, University of California Berkeley

Kathleen Coll, Stanford University

Nora Hamilton, University of Southern California

Patricia Seo, Stanford University

Rubén Martinez, Michigan State University

Whalen Dillon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Dawn M. Richardson, Portland State University

Elizabeth Falconi, Wellesley College

Tanya Golash-Boza, University of California, Merced

Esther Cho, University of California Berkeley

Elizabeth Shockey, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Robert Eric Barde, University of California, Berkeley

Mina Barahimi, University of California, Berkeley

Shannon Gleeson, University of California, Santa Cruz

Sarah Song, University of California, Berkeley

Michael Danielson, American University

John G. Bretting, University of Texas at El Paso

Ronald Schmidt, Davidson College

Denise Gilman, University of Texas

Maria C Figueroa, Cornell University

Elizabeth Cantu, Arizona State University

Martin R. Arford, Saginaw Valley State University

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Capital University Law School

Lisa Melendez, Suffolk County Community College

Mary Brigid Gregory, Saint Catharine College

Amy Davidow, New Jersey Medical School

Patricia M. Juarez, University of Texas at El Paso

David D. Long, University of Wisconsin

Mark Lisk, University of Texas at El Paso

Zulaika Quintero, University of Florida

Jeff Popke, East Carolina University

David G. Anderson, John Carroll University

Hiromi Ishizawa, George Washington University

Jill Tiefenthaler, Colorado College

Eric Sheppard, University of California, Los Angeles

Eva M. Moya, University of Texas at El Paso

Vincent H. Melomo, William Peace University

Mark Noferi, Brooklyn Law School

Kathleen Staudt, University of Texas at El Paso

Robert J Kolesar, John Carroll University

Ian Condry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chris Zepeda-Millan, Loyola Marymount University

Sallie M. Ives, University of North Carolina in Charlotte

Maceo Crenshaw Dailey, Jr., University of Texas at El Paso

Dennis Bixler-Márquez, University of Texas at El Paso

Aurelia Lorena Murga, University of Texas at El Paso

Eric J. Fournier, Samford University

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Pennsylvania State University

Joan T. Wynne, Florida International University

Eric Popkin, Colorado College

Monica W. Varsanyi, City University of New York

Lisa M. Dorner, University of Missouri

Erasmo Gamboa, University of Washington

Gloria Marvic García, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Janice Fine, Rutgers University

Laura Roselle, Elon University

Luis H. Zayas, University of Texas

Cynthia Williams Barnett, Murray State University

Ernesto Castañeda, University of Texas El Paso

Aurolyn Luykx, University of Texas at El Paso

Tom I. Romero, University of Denver

Susanne Jonas, University of California, Santa Cruz

Josiah Heyman, University of Texas at El Paso

Erika M. Sutherland, Muhlenberg College

Donna R. Gabaccia, University of Minnesota

Anthony Polanco, University of Texas at Arlington

Anna Ochoa O'Leary, University of Arizona

Rosalee Gonzalez, Arizona State University

Debra J. Bolton, Kansas State University

Judith Brady, Fordham University

Bill Ong Hing, University of San Francisco

Donald C. Hubin, The Ohio State University

Dave Colnic, California State University, Stanislaus

Megan Walsh, University of the Pacific

Patrick Henry Smith, The University of Texas at El Paso

Marie D Price, George Washington University

Alejandro Morales, University of Missouri

Nancy Newton, Montgomery College

Edward M. Olivos, University of Oregon

Sarah Rogerson, Albany Law School

Katherine Fennelly, University of Minnesota

Rose Marie McKain, ECPI University

Mary C. Waters, Harvard University

Rika Gorn, New York University

Jennifer Jones, University of Notre Dame

Amalia Pallares, University of Illinois at Chicago

Meredith Cummings, University of Alabama

Susanne Jonas, University of California, Santa Cruz

Holly Cooper , University of California, Davis

Deborah M. Weissman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Philip Kasinitz, City University of New York

Robert Courtney Smith, Baruch College

Tomás R. Jiménez, Stanford University

Cecilia Menjivar, Arizona State University

David Landry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Dustin W. Dyer, South University

Peggy Bristol-Wright, Contra Costa College and Humphrey's College of Law